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HB154: Campus police; local law-enforcement agency to be notified of certain reports.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 23-234 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 23-234. Powers and duties; jurisdiction.
A. A campus police officer appointed as
provided in § 23-233, or appointed and
activated pursuant to § 23-233.1, may
exercise the powers and duties conferred by law upon police officers of cities,
towns, or counties, and shall be so deemed, including but not limited to, the provisions of Chapters 5 (§ 19.2-52 et seq.),
7 (§ 19.2-71 et seq.), and 23 (§ 19.2-387 et seq.) of Title 19.2, (i) upon any
property owned or controlled by the relevant public or private institution of
higher education, or, upon request and in
compliance with § 15.2-1727, on
any property owned or controlled by another public or private institution of
higher education; and upon the streets, sidewalks, and
highways, immediately adjacent thereto,;
(ii) pursuant to a mutual aid agreement provided for
in accordance with § 15.2-1727 between
the governing board of a the relevant public
or private institution and such other public or private institution
of higher education, public or private,
in the Commonwealth or adjacent political subdivisions,;
(iii) in close pursuit of a person as provided in § 19.2-77,;
and (iv) upon approval by the appropriate circuit court of a petition by the
local governing body for concurrent jurisdiction in designated areas with the
police officers of the county, city, or town in which the institution, its
satellite campuses, or other properties are located. The local governing body
may petition the circuit court pursuant only to a request by the local
law-enforcement agency for concurrent jurisdiction.
B. Regardless of whether
a public or private institution of higher education has entered into a mutual
aid agreement to maintain peace and good order with
the governing bodies of localities pursuant to § 15.2-1727,
the campus police chief or other chief law- enforcement
officer of such institution of higher education or
his designee shall immediately notify the primary
local law- enforcement
agency of the jurisdiction in which the institution is located of (i) the death
of any person on the property of the institution when such person is medically
unattended and (ii) any report alleging a rape has occurred on the property of
the institution.
After providing notification of any medically unattended death or alleged rape to the primary local law-enforcement agency of the jurisdiction in which the institution is located, the campus police chief or other chief law-enforcement officer and all other employees of such institution of higher education shall participate in any subsequent investigation and cooperate with the law-enforcement agency leading the investigation.
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